Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Rinse Repeat
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She lathered her own death into her hair.
Two hairdressers are dead. The latest, Gloria Baggot, was killed in the one place no one saw danger coming—the shower.
DI Liam McLaughlin and his Major Investigation Team can’t find a clean link between the two women—no shared history, no shared enemies, no obvious motive. The only thing they had in common was their profession. And that alone is enough to spread terror through the city’s salons…
A Very Important Teapot
by Sheppard Steve
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Dawson is the unlikeliest MI6 spy you’ll ever meet. Good thing he has the lethally competent Lucy Smith for company.
From important teapots to vengeful assassins to international conspiracies, is there any escapade that Dawson can’t stumble into or any that Lucy can’t rescue him from? Find out in the funniest spy thriller series you’ll ever read.
Dawson’s life is going nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the love of Rachel Whyte. But Rachel is engaged to Pat Bootle, an apparently successful local solicitor who has appeared from nowhere…
Stone’s Throw
by Mike Lupica
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Paradise is rocked by the mayor’s untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone.
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It’s ostensibly suicide, but Jesse’s has his doubts . . . especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal.
Two powerful moguls are fighting over the right to buy and develop the prime piece of real estate, and one of them has brought in a hired gun, an old adversary of Jesse’s: Wilson Cromartie, aka Crow…
Bad Dolls
by Rachel Harrison
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this stunning new collection of four horror stories, award-winning author Rachel Harrison explores themes of body image, complicated female friendship, heartbreak, and hauntings.
In “Reply Hazy, Try Again,” an indecisive young woman finds a mysterious Magic 8 Ball that might just have the answers she’s been looking for…or might lead her down a path of self-destruction.
In “Bachelorette,” a bridesmaid attends her childhood best friend’s bachelorette weekend, only to discover the itinerary may demand more than she’s willing to sacrifice.
The Shadow Friends
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a harrowing and emotional thriller where ghosts of the Cold War return with a vengeance—and cannot be outrun.
When a renowned disease expert and Russian defector dies mysteriously during a global affairs conference in Purity, Maine, the tight-knit band of former spies in the Martini Club once again sees their quiet coastal retirement interrupted by international intrigue. And when a waitress at the conference hotel is found murdered, Ingrid Slocum sees chilling links to a disastrous mission that nearly killed her three decades ago…
Murder Next Door
by Michele PW, Michele Pariza Wacek
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Everyone knows vampires don’t exist.
So when Mildred Schmidt, one of Charlie’s customers, is convinced that her next-door neighbor’s house sitter is actually a vampire, Charlie of course has to step in to see what is really going on.
What she finds is … disturbing. The house sitter DOES have some peculiar habits—like digging holes in the backyard in the middle of the night.
Surely, they aren’t … graves…
The Day the Sheriff Died
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
They killed the sheriff. Now his son has to wear the badge.
In Dusty Gorge, the coming railroad promises fortunes for the men ruthless enough to seize them. No one stands in the way of cattle baron Raymond Rourke – except Sheriff Thomas Mercer.
So Rourke has him murdered.
The killing leaves the town frightened and desperate for someone to stand against the violence tightening around the valley. That burden falls to Thomas’s son, Elias Mercer, a 24-year-old deputy who never believed he was ready to become sheriff.
The Seventh Floor
by David McCloskey
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people’s secrets. Now they must steal each other’s.
A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat for the disaster and run out of the service. Months later, Sam appears at Procter’s doorstep with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole burrowed deep within the highest ranks of the CIA.
The Blue Blood
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sebastian Harrow once had a title, a fortune, and a future in England. Then his fiancée was murdered, and vengeance cost him all three.
Years later, he’s a bounty hunter in the American West, better known for his gun than his bloodline. When Harrow rides into Cinder Creek, a corrupt sheriff sees the perfect weapon.
Etta Blaine is a saloon owner with her own reasons to fear outlaw Abel Nighthorse. The sheriff tells her Harrow has agreed to protect her.
Harrow is told nothing.